Chapter 22 NO0016: First meeting

Author: Sevenfold Body

Chapter 22 NO.0016: First meeting

Waking up from the sudden dizziness, what appeared in Jiang Zhou's sight was still the unfamiliar ceiling.

Well, and both sides.

What "Theseus" saw before his eyes was a broken ceiling covered with lightning-like cracks, and a few pieces of it collapsed, revealing the dreamy purple starry sky outside.

What Liao Qi saw in front of him was the ceiling with circles of dirty yellow stains due to water seepage on the floor, and the air was filled with a faint smell of disinfectant.

What happened?

Jiang Zhou, who felt a splitting headache, raised his hand and pressed it on his forehead.

He carefully recalled what had happened previously.

In his memory, when the countdown in the sky of Limbo ended, he was about to carry out the first abyss darknet dive and salvage with 136, Chinatsu Sakura and others. Their avatars were compressed into data packets and packaged together.

Send to the deep dive interface and cross the Styx Firewall.

Without the external perception provided by the avatar, they should all become deaf, blind and mute on the Internet. However, for some reason, Jiang Zhou can still maintain a certain degree of vague feelings about the outside world.

He felt a wall whose majesty was difficult to describe in words - if the end of the universe was a wall, this would be what it would feel like.

Then, he was lifted up by something, and with a whistling sound, he passed through a flaw in the wall and reached the other side.

The other shore is an endless and infinite abyss, and everything has no end. Just taking a look at Jiang Zhou, he felt as if his consciousness was melting into it.

And at that moment when self-awareness was weak, an indescribably huge shadow slowly emerged from the extremely deep abyss.

The shadow stretched out tens of thousands of incomparable tentacles, connecting to the wall in the sky. The wall that originally seemed impossible to shake until the heat death of the universe, countless spider webs appeared in an instant

Like texture...

Then, whether it was an illusion or not, he felt that the shadow "noticed" him.

Almost all the tentacles stopped their movements, and only one of the thickest tentacles slowly rolled towards him at a speed that was ten thousand times softer than the force it hit the wall with before...

And his consciousness was interrupted before the tentacle touched him.

What exactly is that?

Jiang Zhou thought to himself.

Is that the malicious program that 136 people mentioned before, wandering in the abyss and dark web?

Is it possible that they want to seize the technological blueprint or transformation authority in the hands of this kind of thing?

besides……

"Where is this again?"

Jiang Zhou muttered to himself as he covered his head, which was still throbbing in pain.

"Haven't you been to the infirmary at Chiron House before?"

A familiar voice answered the question from Liao Qi's mouth.

He raised his head, and the person speaking was Booker who had just opened the door and walked in.

"Why would I..."

Before Jiang Zhou could finish his question, a kid with a tiger head and a tiger brain came out from behind Booker and pounced directly on him.

"Brother Liao! You're awake!"

The conditioned reflex brought about by the hand-to-hand combat tactics memory made Jiang Zhou sit up from the bed like a spring and hugged the child like lightning.

Then he almost gouged out the other person's eyeballs smoothly... Fortunately, he realized who the other person was, and in the end he just lightly patted the other person's face with his extended hand.

"Little shrimp, please pay attention to the situation! I'm...I'm still in the hospital bed, and you just pounced on me."

Jiang Zhou said helplessly.

Xia Hu, nicknamed Tiger Tiger, is one of the dozens of orphans of Icarus comrades who were adopted in Chiron House.

Among children of the same age, he has a troublesome personality like the king of children, but for some reason he is particularly attached to Liao Qi. Every time he comes to volunteer, he always brings a large group of people to pester him and ask him to talk more.

There are stories about low-level gang fighting in the resettlement area.

"But didn't Brother Liao still catch me? This minor illness is simple for you."

After being lightly slapped a few times, the child showed no unpleasant emotions at all, but giggled and said to Liao Qi.

Then he jumped down from the hospital bed, covered his chest, bent over and raised his head, and said in a heavy tone:

"Oh, it's just a serious injury..."

"A line from the animated Falcon Man?"

Looking at the other party's movements, Jiang Zhou asked thoughtfully.

"Yes, yes! Brother Liao, you have seen it too!"

The boy replied excitedly.

"Xia Hu, you haven't finished your general education class today! Why did you slip here!"

Before the child could say anything more, the door of the health room was pushed open again, and a middle-aged woman with a frown on her face walked in with a ruler. When Xia Hu saw her, she quickly wanted to go through Booker's door at the door.

He slipped out behind him, but was grabbed by the arm.

"Still want to run? Today I will punish you with another set of data architecture exercises!"

After saying that, she raised her head, looked at Booker and smiled:

"Mr. Booker came to see the children today too."

The latter nodded and replied:

"I'm here to do some errands."

The woman's expression suddenly became serious, and she lowered her voice and said:

"Then, I will pay attention to the schedule of the children today."

"Sorry to trouble you, Aunt Huo."

"If anything, we are the ones. I really want to thank you for taking care of me... Hey, why are you here and why are you lying here?"

The person in charge of the orphanage, who was called Aunt Huo, turned to look at Jiang Zhou, and her tone suddenly changed.

Before Jiang Zhou could answer, she lowered her head and looked at Xia Hu, who was being dragged by her, and said:

"Very good, today I will add a set of data architecture exercises and non-Euclidean structure modeling practice. I haven't finished it yet, and I will only have coccus porridge for dinner tonight."

The expression on Xia Hu's face froze instantly.

Ignoring the child's "Why?", Aunt Huo looked at Liao Qi on the hospital bed again:

"Stop talking about those things at the bottom of the resettlement area to teach bad children. I have already said..."

"Aunt Huo, you misunderstood."

Booker quickly smoothed things over and said:

"Liao Qi is here to do business just like me. The reason why he is lying here is because he suffered some head injuries due to some things before and just fainted. It was because I met a little shrimp tiger on the road before. By the way,

I brought him here, I'm sorry..."

"Oh oh..."

Aunt Huo nodded, then turned to Liao Qi, her expression softened:

"Then you should have a good rest first. I will ask if Dr. Liu is here later."

Seeing Aunt Huo disappearing around the corner of the corridor dragging Xia Hu, who was rolling around all the way, Jiang Zhou let out a long sigh.

"What? Do you have any emotions?"

Booker asked jokingly.

"I feel like dealing with Aunt Huo is more stressful than dealing with those street mercenaries."

Jiang Zhou answered by pressing his forehead. Then he looked at Booker and asked:

"How did I faint?"

"I don't know. When I went to the prosthetist to have the brain fillers and artificial leather replaced, nothing happened. But when I arrived at the door of Chiron House, you suddenly fell hard on your back. Give me

Terrified."

Are you okay now?

Booker asked.

Jiang Zhou shook his head and immediately rolled over from the bed.

"Maybe I've experienced too many things before, and I'm a little mentally tired. I came to a place where my subconscious felt safe, and I just relaxed and passed out."

Jiang Zhou gave a random reason.
To be continued...